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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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When Wendy Boychuck's father, a Chicago cop, was escorted from their property in handcuffs, she knew her life would never be the same. Her father gets a years-long jail sentence, her family falls on hard times, and the whispers around their neighborhood are impossible to ignore. If that wasn't bad enough, she gets jumped walking home from a party one night. Wendy quickly realizes that in order to survive her father's reputation, she'll have to make...
2) Blink
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Sixteen-year-old Josh falls in love with newcomer Chatham Claiborne, who has come to town to find her missing sister, but when Chatham suddenly disappears Josh unearths a web of lies and secrecy surrounding her life, and in doing so unwittingly discoversvital clues to the town's longest unsolved mystery.
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"Nineteen-year-old Sam's summer isn't off to a great start. Her boyfriend, Eli, ditched her for a European backpacking trip and now she's a counselor at Camp Blue Springs: the summer camp her eleven-year-old self swore never to return to. Sam expects the next seven weeks to be a total disaster. That is, until she meets Gavin, the camp's sailing instructor, who turns her expectations upside down. Gavin may have gotten the job just for his abs. Or that...
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Turquoise Nez Timerhorn seems to have it all. She's gorgeous. She's got lots of friends and admirers. Her boyfriend - Ed; who has supermodel looks and is not only captain of the unbeaten basketball team but also a high achiever in the classroom - adores her. She even lands a plumb internship. Turquoise and Ed are shoo-ins for King and Queen of the Senior Prom. There's only one problem - Ed is Mr. Punctuality, while Turquoise can't get anywhere on...
5) City love
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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"Told from alternating points of view, City Love is the story of three very different girls living together in NYC as they struggle to find the balance between their dreams, their pasts, and their complicated hearts"--
6) Miss Meteor
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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"There hasn't been a winner of the Miss Meteor beauty pageant who looks like Lita Perez or Chicky Quintanilla in all its history. But thats not the only reason Lita wants to enter the contest, or why her ex-best friend Chicky wants to help her. The road to becoming Miss Meteor isnt about being perfect; its about sharing who you are with the world--and loving the parts of yourself no one else understands. So to pull off the unlikeliest underdog story...
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In the best Southern literary tradition, A Yellow Watermelon explores poverty and racial segregation through the eyes of an innocent boy. In rural south Alabama in 1948, whites picked on one side of the cotton field and blacks on the other. Where the fields meet, twelve-year-old Ted meets Poudlum, a black boy his own age, who teaches him how to endure the hard work while they bond and go on to integrate the field. Through Poudlum and Jake, an escaped...
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If you were given the chance to visit another dimension, filled with dragons, monsters, and creatures, would you take it? Well, that's how 12-year old Ralph Williams became a friend of DimensionZ and an enemy of all the monsters in it. Join Ralph and his new friends Dr. Jaxson and Luzasa in these three mind-blowing adventures all over DimensionZ-cracking clues and solving puzzles to advance to the finish line. From fighting vine monsters to stopping...
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Glamorous! Raheema Sanders, 85-year-old CEO of Sepia Cosmetics seeks to find a way to reverse the effects of aging on herself. Learning that Isis is more than human, she has the goddess kidnapped and taken to her secret lab so she can learn the beauty secrets of the gods. However, when she comes face-to-face with the goddess she soon learns Isis' beauty is more than skin deep.
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Welcome to the world of Chris and his life, including inside his body! While Chris fights an infection and goes through much, gather closer to see inside. Meet Ms. Epi, Mr. Saureus and Pseunosa-all bacteria who will come to life before your eyes. Meet the caring doctor who struggles to find the answers and the nurse who is at the right place at the right time. Come join the struggles and triumphs of life like you have never seen before. This is a...
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For the first time since the trial of the evil god Seth, The Court of the Elders is brought to order. Ra, Chief Justice of the Elders issues a warrant for the arrest of Isis, the long-lost daughter of Osiris. In the aftermath of a horrible tragedy, she's brought to court to be tried for crimes against the gods. Crimes punishable by death. Will the gods offer her a second chance to be redeemed? Or will she suffer the same fate as Seth?
12) Isis
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In the aftermath of a horrible tragedy, Isis the long-lost daughter of Osiris has committed a heinous crime. Because she didn't receive guidance from her father, the elder gods show mercy on the young goddess by stripping her of her powers and imprisoning her on an uncharted island in the South Pacific.Osiris and Queen Isis reunite with his long-lost child to begin the difficult process of establishing a familial relationship. Hoping to guide Isis...
13) Baptism of Blood
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In this second prequel to Shawn James' Isis,.E'steem learns the truth about her Katian heritage. She joins Seth and his campaign to overthrow the gods of Heliopolis, looking forward to the day she can avenge her father by killing Osiris.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
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In this hilarious homage to Jane Austen, a lady with a penchant for trouble finds a handsome spy much more than merely tolerable.
"It's Jane Austen meets Jane Foster in Anstey's debut novel, which serves up a delightful combination of Regency romance, scientific curiosity, and spy intrigue for a tale that will have readers rooting for love and science." -Entertainment Weekly
Juliana Telford is not your average nineteenth-century young lady. She's...
15) The Sneakers
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Trakaim and Luis are best friends who love sneakers. When they spot the new Air Jordans in the window of the Dr. Jays on Fordham Road their friendship turns into a rivalry when they make a bet on who will be the first to have the new kicks.Not wanting to look soft, the boys look for ways to hustle the cash to pay for their shoes. As their quest for the green takes them on two very different roads, the boys learn valuable life lessons worth more than...
16) The Fall
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The first book in The God Slayers Quartet, a young adult series set in a dystopian future Earth ruled over by warring gods, cat people and a tyrannical religious cult. Young Ben Casper lives in an old shopping mall with his family. He must contend with growing up, falling in love, and losing friends, as well as becoming embroiled in a plot to kill the gods that could put everyone he cares about in mortal danger... For fans of The Hunger Games and...
17) Me Again
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A young man recalls all of his previous lives and how he died.
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William Grey is a P.I. for the dead. Ghosts are his clients. a tougher-than-nails detective who's seen it all and then some. Hired by a beautiful woman to solve her murder. But is she who she really seems? What is her true motive? His investigation will lead him into dark tunnels, graveyards, train stations, and beautiful mansions. He'll enter into a world of a powerful secret society determined to overthrow world governments. The Grim Reaper is...
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Sindibad, a seasoned explorer with a relentless thirst for knowledge, has sailed seas and navigated the stars in pursuit of adventure. Yet, nothing in his previous seven voyages could prepare him for the enigma looming on the horizon – a monstrous creature unlike anything he's ever encountered.
When his ship meets a disastrous end, Sindibad finds himself plunged into the unknown depths, only to be swallowed whole by the very creature that intrigued...
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Zak Raven, once the superhero Kid Ranger, is now just a typical fifteen-year-old boy living in Bluffside. But when most of his friends are playing video games or studying for their final exams, Zak is fighting real life robots, and defeating his arch enemy, Professor Dimitri Raine.
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